Your life has an inner purpose and an outer purpose. Inner purpose concerns Being and is primary. Outer purpose concerns doing and it is secondary. Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity. Your inner purpose is an essential part of the purpose of the whole, the universe and its emerging intelligence. Your outer purpose can change over time. It varies greatly from person to person. Finding and living in alignment with the inner purpose is the foundation for fulfilling your outer purpose. It is the basis for true success. Without that alignment, you can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endevor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.

Those who awaken never rest in one place.Like swans, they rise and leave the lake.On the air they rise and fly an invisible course.Their food is knowledge.They live on emptiness.They have seen how to break free.Who can follow them?

We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is what moves the stars through the heavens and the earth through its seasons. The final norm of judgment concerning the success or failure of our technologies is the extent to which they enable us to participate more fully in this grand festival.

Do solemnly swear to love, honor and obey my soul, my path to realization and relationship with a higher, deeper creative power, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, from now and forever more.

If we stay with our feelings about the world situation, if we acknowledge what is already there, if we work our own trauma residue, we can collectively, alchemically change the lead into gold, moving our hearts forward, using all that is as a vehicle for awakening.

Pamela Church

Source: Gestures of the Heart: A Guide for Healing the Residue of Life's Traumas, Pages: 19

If we stay with our feelings about the world situation, if we acknowledge what is already there, if we work our own trauma residue, we can collectively, alchemically change the lead into gold, moving our hearts forward, using all that is as a vehicle for awakening.

Pamela Church

Source: Gestures of the Heart: A Guide for Healing the Residue of Life's Traumas, Pages: 19